in the meantime



in the meantime

the period of time between two things; the period of time between now and when something is supposed to happen. The movie starts at 6:00. In the meantime, let's eat dinner. My flight was at 8:00. In the meantime, I played solitaire.

in the meantime

while something else is happening or until something else happens in the meanwhile A new school is being built, but in the meantime this school building remains seriously overcrowded.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Erebus-Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Caterina-Italian, Catalan
Alyssiaə-LIS-yəEnglish (Modern)
Rajesh-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Dre-English
Tamir-Hebrew